Posted on 03/12/2014 5:40:03 AM PDT by grundle
On a conference call with reporters Tuesday afternoon, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services insisted that March 31 is the firm deadline to sign up for Obamacare. "We have no plans to extend the open enrollment period," HHS official Julie Bataille said. "In fact, we don't actually have the statutory authority to extend the open enrollment period in 2014." Obama Sebelius
A reporter followed up, asking why the administration could delay many other parts of the law but not this one. Michael Hash, who directs the Office of Health Reform at HHS, replied that the law states that the HHS secretary must set the open enrollment dates by June 2012, which Secretary Sebelius did. "Once that 2014 open enrollment period has been set, they are set permanently," Hash said. He did not explain why the administration has the authority to ignore other statutory deadlines to implement the employer mandate or cancel private health insurance plans not eligible for "grandfathering."
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It’s the law of the land. No, NOW it’s the law of the land. No, no, NOW it’s the law of the land. No, no, no, NOW it’s the law of the land ...
Aaand...who is going to stop him?
True Orwellian speak! In other words... "We only have the statutory authority to do what WE WANT TO DO (for the "Good of the Party"!!!!!
CYA with paper is in progress.
HHS is right. It lacks statutory authority to change any part of the law.
obama lacks statutory authority to change any part of the law.
That being said it is a terrible law and needs repealed asap
Draft and pass a ‘law’ through congress.
Declare yourself King and change parts of it that reflect bad on your party until after an election.
Yes, this is the NEW US Government... supported, funded and protected by the US Media.
I can ony imagine the shitstorm that would be happening if a Republican president did this.
Nice HHS realized that truth.
Contrary to what liberal elites think he United States is NOT run by a dictator, We're a country of laws.
“””””obama lacks statutory authority to change any part of the law.”””””
What do you mean? He is King. He can create, enforce, or change any law that he sees fit to help his party.
Who is going to stop him? He knows the media will never report anything negative. Who is going to call him out on it? Media?
And nobody will challenge him less they be called RACIST.
His race has got him this far in life and his race will allow him to do whatever he wants. No guilty white person will dare disparage the One. Guilty whites will watch the country burn before they dare say whats right before their eyes.
But who will actually hold them accountable? Why would it begin happening today?
I thought they might point to some obscure regulation allowing modification of dates, etc. Apparently there is none which is very interesting and could bite them in court.
nOnetheless
Or stated another way, the only changes to Obamacare are the ones Obama wanted to happen. The HOR voted lots, but did nothing.
The problem was that the RINOs let the DC crowd and the RINOs spin "shutting down the gov" as a minus with the American people when it was the way to end Obamacare.
Like the weather, if you don’t like Obamacare, just wait a while.
Not a problem for Li’l’ Dictator.
Not to mix metaphors but the tide has turned.
I wish I could be so optimistic. I remember all of the “we got him now” times during all of the Clinton regime scandals. Nothing ever happened and GOP won in a landslide in ‘94.
I would like to think it wasn’t just another day.
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